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The Language of genes by Steve Jones Steve Jones's The Language of Genes offers a broad insight into the way genes work, why they are important and also how they be used in the future, not to mention how they can be misused. The book tackles many misconceptions and controversial aspects of genes as well as giving a person with no knowledge about genes a broad view with many examples. The Language of genes was adapted from the BBC Radio series by the same person, this shows in how easy the concepts are to understand. One of the main aims for a BBC programmed to do is entertain and educate, this book tries to follow this and succeeds in its attempt The book is titled the languages of genes because Steve Jones makes comparisons between genes and languages. Although there are some similarities I do not feel that the connection is very...

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